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Members of lynching mobs may now know that they do not bask in universal approval, even in their own disgraced communities, and they may begin to fear that someday, on sufficient evidence and with sufficient courage, a Southern lynching case jury will convict." [2] In 1950, lawyers from the NAACP, citing a provision dated 1895 in the state ...
A graph of lynchings in the US by victim race and year [1] The body of George Meadows, lynched near the Pratt Mines in Jefferson County, Alabama, on January 15, 1889 Bodies of three African-American men lynched in Habersham County, Georgia, on May 17, 1892 Six African-American men lynched in Lee County, Georgia, on January 20, 1916 (retouched photo due to material deterioration) Lynching of ...
[2] According to the EJI, over 4,000 lynching took place between the years of 1877 and 1950. [3] Lynching became a mechanism for terrifying and controlling African Americans. "it served as a psychological balm for white supremacy." [4] [page needed] This story of lynching takes place in the North, specifically Winchester, Illinois.
[14] [15] More than 4075 documented lynchings of black people took place between 1877 and 1950, concentrated in 12 Southern states. In addition, the EJI has published supplementary information about lynchings in several states outside the South. The monument is the first major work in the nation to name and honor these victims. [16]
The report is a history lesson in how lynchings and executions have been used in America and how discrimination bleeds into the criminal justice system. Report: Death penalty cases show history of ...
Scholars have called capital punishment as "legal lynching," with the overlapping history of the peak of lynching with the rise of the death penalty. 'A new version of lynching': Why the cases of ...
Sociologist Arthur F. Raper investigated one hundred lynchings during the 1930s and estimated that approximately one-third of the victims were falsely accused. [4] [5] On a per capita basis, lynchings were also common in California and the Old West, especially of Latinos, although they represented less than 10% of the national total.
[23] [24] Between 1882 and 1903, 125 black-on-black lynchings were recorded in 10 southern states, as were four cases of whites being lynched by black people. [25] There were 115 recorded cases of women lynched between 1851 and 1946; 90 were black, 19 white, and six Hispanic or uncertain.